Local robotics team gears up for the future

Local robotics team gears up for the future

working on since september. then it's on to a world tournament in detroit....but as newschannel 2's audrey russo explains...the actual days spent competiting...are just a small part of all this team does. the equipment lying around this studio...is advanced.....

"nats" the lexicon, highly technical "quick nats" the only thing that gives away this team's high school age.

"we have googly eyes on all of our robots" ...is their youthful enthusiam "check list! and so 're ing throh everything make surwe don't rget everythi buwhat if everyonwas as excited to gto work...as e stents of the gead up robotics team.....whose committy is week right n we're putting in finitely cle to 30 hou" an engi cuments everying we do throughout the yr there's programming there's building so we like to call ourselves a company like a family-run business and not just like a club or a team standup. cured ups b is madeup s from the purely cosmetic to the custom-designed and coming up with the money to create a robot like thistakes a lot of work " " so we actually are a privately- funded team we do a lot of marketing and branding to get sponsorships because we have to raise about $20,000 per season " i track a lot of our money coming in and out in order to find tournamts and parts loat some of t higher- level competitions and s get more expensive but that's for the team member start to learn how to finance and how to make a budget each ye,he challees change " and this year you have to pick up cubes and stack them in a certain orientation at a box the team ages " gotten like to be really and this year, the three leaders of geared up...areheing bright as their designs can power.

"harvard" "mechanical engineering" but not without one final nod to the six years of work that inspiried them to build their own future " and it was also the name on t thoughit'd be rlly cool toind of bring back thame for the nior membs finayear a-r clayvie... nc2. a-r in clayville... nc2. the utica saint